ppl. a. [f. BALLAST v. + -ED.] Furnished with ballast; rendered steady or stable.

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1552.  Huloet, Balessed, saburratus.

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1586.  Bright, Melanch., xxxv. 195. They be well ballaced with knowledge of the Scriptures.

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c. 1645.  Howell, Lett. (1650), II. 32. Those that have their heads lightly ballasted.

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a. 1797.  H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. III. (1845), I. xxi. 305. The poor young man’s head … was by no means ballasted by a good heart.

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